Recent content by oranje

What do the bubbles mean? I just realized that a rock in my new tank has more than a few... appearing towards the end of the day. I seem to remember this being something evil. Be kind with your diagnosis. :(

If it's a black algae outbreak, I think it's probably cyano. And oh man, did I ever deal with that before - and in my new tank, it just popped up. Cyano, or "black death" as I like to call it, is the greatest pain ever. I would suggest removing as much of it as possible by hand, and then...

I have a really flakey one I must replace in the next week or so... it's not that its "broken," but it doesn't turn on by itself. If you give it a little jiggle, the light goes on and it warms the water. Without the jiggle, it doesn't turn on. Hrmmm...

My porcupine puffer doesn't really bother any inverts. He leaves corals, featherdusters, crabs, and snails alone for the most part. He bites at hermits once in a while, but has never eaten them. My toby puffer, on the other hand, would eat hermits like they were candy. His mouth is peuney...

My friend had several of these(or a variation of) in one of his tanks... A few months afterwards, he acquired a cuddlefish because they're the coolest things ever. A week or so after it arrived, a brittle starfish grabbed its feeding tentacle, and essentially ripped it off. The cuddlefish...

I'm for clean hands in the tank, but not gloved hands. Every time I've used gloves in my tank, I've come close to disaster... I personally think it's hard to feel around with the gloves, and a lot easier to misplace something.

To clarify, the puffer has had ich twice, and the hippo tang once. The first time the puffer had ich was because I was a newbie - I thought all I had to do was replace evaporated water and check the pH once in a while... oh how quickly I learned. Nine months later the puffer got ich was after...

I've had amazing success with garlic treating ich. Both my puffer and hippo tang have had ich quite a few times over the past couple of years, but letting their food soak in a few drops of garlic extract before I feed them fixes the problem in a couple of days. Adding garlic to the water does...

I just got another algae blenny for my 120 gallon tank, the other lives in a 45 gallon... Both are excellent fish. Completely non-agressive, non-invasive, and they're algae eating machines. Well, they were... until they discovered flake food. One of mine is probably the fattest fish to ever...

I think it's around 12 inches... the two of mine are each 7 inches or so, and I think they're still growing for a while... Also, they do need space to swim, yet many places to hide.

Nice fish! I'm a fan of the foxface... they're just so damn cute and/or schizophrenic.

The sump also allows space for more liverock and livesand, which can improve water quality pretty well, and as mentioned, it can act as a refugium... the reason I put a sump on one of my tanks is to increase the food supply for thee little mandarins.

Nope, not spaghetti worms... the little tentacle-things are much thicker on this beast, as well as much shorter. Wait, did you see worms in addition to the squiggly innards of a mushroom? Or was it just the squiggly mess that is the inside of a mushroom? Either way, that's exactly what they...

Hey reefers, On a rock in my new tank, I noticed a new, really creepy looking mass of worms(i think). They take up about a 1cm in diameter area on the side of a rock, are white in color, and seem pretty short. Have you ever upset a mushroom very badly? Know the weird white squigglies that...

Hey Reefers, In my new tank which is still semi-cycling(6 weeks old), I started adding a buffer solution as my alkalinity and pH needed a boost - I put in 3tsp of kent Superbuffer dKH into 1 liter of RO/DI water. Upon letting this solution drip into the tank, interesting white clouds started...